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Moral Hazard

Moral Hazard

Are the linguistic tricks Chinese journalists use to express their opinions just another form of self-censorship?
January 31, 2014
“Access Is Overrated”

“Access Is Overrated”

Watch video of Jane Mayer’s presentation at the Nieman Foundation’s 75th Anniversary celebration Before joining The New Yorker in 1995, Jane Mayer spent 12 years as a reporter at The…
January 29, 2014
Nimble with Numbers

Nimble with Numbers

John A. McDermott founded The Chicago Reporter in 1972. Despite his best intentions, the Reporter is still around today.A civil rights activist who stood with the Rev. Martin Luther King…
January 29, 2014
Anthony, NF ’57, and David Lewis, NF ’94

Anthony, NF ’57, and David Lewis, NF ’94

David Lewis was the first CNN employee to receive a Nieman and has worked throughout the broadcast news business. His father, Anthony Lewis, who died in March of this year,…
September 24, 2013
George de Lama, NF ’92

George de Lama, NF ’92

During 30 years at the Chicago Tribune, de Lama opened three bureaus in Latin America and rose through the ranks from reporter to foreign correspondent to managing editor for news…
September 24, 2013
A.B. Guthrie Jr., NF ’45

A.B. Guthrie Jr., NF ’45

Guthrie (1901–1991), who spent 21 years at The Lexington (Ky.) Leader, called the Nieman Fellowship his “big break.” English professor Theodore Morrison helped him write the novel “The Way West,”…
September 24, 2013

Richard, NF ’56, and John Harwood, NF ’90

John Harwood is chief Washington correspondent of CNBC and a political writer for The New York Times My small Nieman moments began long before I set foot in Cambridge in…
September 19, 2013

Harvard Meets the Press

From the Nieman Foundation's 50th Anniversary: A Personal Account of the Early Nieman Years
September 11, 2013

Grady Clay on the Future of Journalism and Cities: “No One Can Stay in the Center”

Grady Clay. Photo by John NationGrady Clay, NF ’49, an urban affairs specialist who was a reporter and editor for The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal and editor of Landscape Architecture Quarterly,…
June 13, 2013

Our Communities Crave Watchdog Journalism

Photo by Kristyna Wentz-Graff/Milwaukee Journal SentinelEarly one recent morning I fired off an e-mail to my managing editor, enraged that a story on the front page of our paper reported…
June 13, 2013